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that is important was expressed by Onondaga Faith Keeper Oren Lyons at the end of an interview he did with Bill Moyers years ago. It played on PBS a few times, around the time that Moyers wonderful series with Joseph Campbell were popular.
At the end of the interview, Oren explains "that we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously."
"Even a chief?," Moyers asks.
"Especially a chief, I guess," Oren answered. "You're just a human being, really. And you happen to take on a responsibility that anybody else could have taken on if he wanted to do it and took the commitment to do it. And you begin to see the serious side of things quite a bit but, nevertheless, there's a life to be lived. I told you the instruction was to give thanks. There was a second instruction that I didn't mention. That was to enjoy life. We're instructed to enjoy life."
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